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       Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: October 2, 2013, 12:11 pm
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       This is unique in the sense of taking something that is not only
       creepy, but juxtaposing it as beautiful pictures.
       [glow=red,2,300]Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns
       to Stone[/glow]
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       There's a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a
       deadly secret—it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare
       phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the
       petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a
       horror film.
       Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged
       Land, petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to
       its constant pH of 9 to 10.5—an extremely basic alkalinity that
       preserves these creatures for eternity. According to Brandt:
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       > I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and
       bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern
       Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it
       appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface
       confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows,
       they crash into the lake. The water has an extremely high soda
       and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my
       Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes
       the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.
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       > I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and
       then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to
       ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death.
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       The rest of the haunting images follow and they feature in
       Brandt's book, available here. Or, you could go and visit for
       yourself—but keep a safe distance from the water, please.
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       Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone
   DIR By: Chiprocks1
       Date: October 2, 2013, 5:37 pm
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       Is this legit?
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       Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: October 2, 2013, 5:58 pm
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       Ya-huh
       Across the Ravaged Land - Nick Brandt
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